[F8] Extracting radiobutton data from loop

[TC21]

Hi

Cant find the answer to this and im sure its dead easy but..Sorry im a newbie

Basically i have a radio button based quiz (at present with only 10 questions (so i could do this by hard coding - but the numbers may increase in future so i want to be able to loop through)

Basically each radiogroup has 3 answers with a value of 0, 1 or 2 - i need to get this value for each one, allocate it and the use further down the line

I have created an array to store these values (and that works when manually accessing as opposed to looping)- so basically it is just the right hand variable that i am not accessing properly whilst in the loop- have posted the code below for help - thanks in advance (n.b. this is AS1 and is triggered on a submit buton)

code:

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on (release) 

{

	

	for(i=0; i<amountOfQuestions; i++)

	{

		

		

	//howAnswered[i]= ([i]_radioGroup.getData());

	howAnswered[i] = eval(i+"_radioGroup.getData()");

//the bits above are a few of my attempts to access data - both duff

//everything else seems ok





	

	//allocate the values

		if (howAnswered[i]==0)

	{

		never++;

	}

	else if (howAnswered[i]==1)

	{

		sometimes++;

	}

	else if (howAnswered[i]==2)

	{

		always++;

	}

		}

		





	gotoAndStop("frame2");

	}

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[chriso20]

so the if (howAnswered[i]==0) part of the code isn't working?

have you tried tracing howAnswered[i] after it's set to make sure you're setting it to the right value?

Try that (if that's what you meant) then work backwards to the source. I'm here to help!

[TC21]

Hi

Nope the part to allocate the variable was working fine. the bit that wasnt working was howAnswered[i] = eval(i+"_radioGroup.getData()");or the like - basically the right hand side was dodgy code/syntax.

I have now sussed a way to do it though -so i will post below for anybody else having the same issue. (probably not the most elegant solution - but it works). thanks for having a look anyway - much appreciated.

Working code below

code:

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on (release) 

{

	

	for(i=0; i<amountOfQuestions; i++)

	{

		

		testMe=i+"_radioGroup";

		trace(testMe);



		//access the answers

	

	//need to use eval to convert the string value to a path

	howAnswered[i] = eval(testMe).getData();



		

	//allocate the values

		if (howAnswered[i]==0)

	{

		never++;

	}

	else if (howAnswered[i]==1)

	{

		sometimes++;

	}

	else if (howAnswered[i]==2)

	{

		always++;

	}

		}

		





	gotoAndStop("frame2");

	}

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[chriso20]

glad you sorted it.

I should have spotted it!

It's also a good idea to use []'s instead of eval().

so eval("word"+i) would be ["word"+i]

If it's the left hand of an argument/statement you need to add this/_root/_level0 depending on the variables location, for example;

_root["word"+i] = "blah blah";
this["word"+i] = "blah blah";

and remember to leave the fullstop/period off the end of the _root and this's.

[TC21]

Hi

Thanks for the tip - i had thought [] was only of use for defined arrays. Afraid im a designer - not a programmer - and am still trying to get my head around all of this -cheers again.